Long time Quote by Iris Murdoch

“Well," he said, "don't you know that there are souls forever in torment? They must have alternate dream and action, the purest passions and…

— Gustave Flaubert

“My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long time after. There was no…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another’s actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own. So strangely did they…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell her why! Thus a poor mortal seduced…

— Anonymous

“I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have…

— robert m drake

“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”

— Franz Kafka

“This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful ghostly, unquiet possession, for…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“The air stilled, suspended with unspoken words, heavy thoughts, and two people who couldn't look away from one another.”

— Jenny B. Jones

“When you have all, why torment the depths?”

— Keith Waldrop

“All the people who try to torment me, and who have now occupied the entire space around me, will quite gradually be thrust back…

— Franz Kafka